Former Chapel of Ease

Former Chapel of Ease, 12-19 Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2DY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387278
Date first listed:
21-May-1999
List Entry Name:
Former Chapel of Ease
Statutory Address:
Former Chapel of Ease, 12-19 Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2DY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387278
Date first listed:
21-May-1999
List Entry Name:
Former Chapel of Ease
Statutory Address 1:
Former Chapel of Ease, 12-19 Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2DY

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Former Chapel of Ease, 12-19 Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2DY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Redruth
National Grid Reference:
SW 69713 42039

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 July 2022 to update the name address and text and reformat the text to current standards

SW 64 SE
1535/11/10020

REDRUTH
CHAPEL STREET
No 12-19 (Former Chapel of Ease)

(Formerly listedas Former Chapel of Ease)

GV
II

Chapel of ease, now residential. 1828; by Charles Hutchens. Dressed granite and granite ashlar dressings. Corrugated asbestos sheet roof with stone coping to gable ends. Rectangular on plan with small porch to entrance at east end, and turret at west end. Commissioners' Gothic style. West end with advanced centre rising above the gable with battlements, and three-light four-centred arch window with cusped tracery and small gabled stone porch below with pointed arch window and side doorway; diagonal buttresses at the corners with set-offs and pinnacles. Similar buttresses and pinnacles on the corners of the west end which has a projecting turret, its bellcote missing; the turret has a pointed arch panel with trefoiled oculus and flanking pointed arch windows with cusped wooden tracery. The north and south sides each have four pointed arch windows with wooden window frames with cusped tracery, and chamfered square headed windows below.

INTERIOR much altered.

NOTE: The Chapel of Ease was built in 1828 near the town centre to provide for the increasing mining population, as the parish church was situated out of Redruth.

Listing NGR: SW6971342039

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
475213
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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